Lorraine Geller - At the Piano / SHM-CD
2023 Japanese SHM-CD release
In 1954, twenty-six-year-old jazz pianist Lorraine Geller recorded what would be her sole album as a leader: Lorraine Geller – At the Piano. She worked hard and played widely with big names like Miles Davis and Philly Joe Jones. Her touch was firm and elegant, her solos full of complex ideas and shifting moods, and she could cook on the fast songs.
Along with pianists Jutta Hipp, Mary Lou Williams, and Mary McPartland, she was one of the few female instrumentalists playing in this male-dominated, mid-century genre. A week after playing the first Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958, she died from pulmonary edema. She was thirty-years-old. Her album At the Piano has long since fallen out of print in the US, but if you love piano trios, you need this album.
At the Piano includes surprising cover songs and four of her original compositions, memorable and moving with names like “Clash By Night” and “Madame X;” these songs double as glimpses of what her future held.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2016/04/at-the-piano-remembering-lorraine-geller-and-portlands-jazz-history-2/
(4988031581650)
| SKU | 4988031581650 |
| Barcode # | 4988031581650 |
| Brand | Dot / Universal Japan |
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